Bob Bugh, senior pastor of Wheaton Bible Church, lost his best friend and his wife to cancer in a year and a half's time. Now in his book, "When the Bottom Drops Out," and in a sermon series he is preaching this fall, he tells how we can have hope in the

SALEM — "Townie" by Andre Dubus III is a memoir about growing up poor in mill towns in Essex County, in a single-parent household during the drug-infested 1970s. Dubus, son of writer Andre Dubus, started to fight back — literally — after years of be